Voyage of Hope: Vietnamese Australian Womens Narratives
Book Details
Author(s)
Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen
Publisher
Common Ground Publishing
ISBN / ASIN
186335591X
ISBN-13
9781863355919
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#3,894,228
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United States 🇺🇸
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Description
Shortlisted for the prestigious 2007 New South Wales Premier's Literary Award.
VOYAGE OF HOPE explores the experiences and journeys of Vietnamese women who arrived in Australia as part of the massive exodus of refugees from Vietnam following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. It reveals women s memories of life in Vietnam during the French colonial period and after, throughout the war and its aftermath, and what motivated them to leave their homeland and embark on an often dangerous journey to freedom a voyage of hope that eventually led them to a new life in Australia.
VOYAGE OF HOPE explores the experiences and journeys of Vietnamese women who arrived in Australia as part of the massive exodus of refugees from Vietnam following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. It reveals women s memories of life in Vietnam during the French colonial period and after, throughout the war and its aftermath, and what motivated them to leave their homeland and embark on an often dangerous journey to freedom a voyage of hope that eventually led them to a new life in Australia.
